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CauseAchatter, Gardening

Winter Garden and newly learnt gardening tips

Winter Garden Our tiny little winter balcony garden is like a flowery wonderland these days. Here in Kolkata, the slightly chilly air of the “catch me if you can” winter, is the welcome sign for the flowers to start arriving. Every morning we wake up to our winter garden adorned with the voluptuous roses, the […]

Blogging, Food for Thought

What makes e-commerce platforms customer friendly?

“Happy to Help” e- commerce platforms “How may I help you today?”“ I am happy to help you today.” These are a few statements that we often hear when we call an e-commerce platform’s customer care number or are having a frustratingly blunt and one sided conversation with a customer care chat bot! But how […]

CauseAchatter, Food for Thought, Mental Health

5 things I did in 2021 for my Mental Health

Mental health is not an easy subject to write about. You cant delve too deep inside. Its difficult to throw up personal examples as you may end up overasharing. But if you do share a bit, a sense of relief and calm sets in. Phew! I got it off my chest… As far back as […]

Blogging, Lifestyle

Online Shopping E-commerce and Me

Flash back to the year 2012. Online shopping, E-commerce and me started our journey from then. I have joined my job and am living alone in a new city far away from home. Cooking for myself, managing an apartment all by myself, everything was new for me. Adulting here I come! It was an overwhelming […]

CauseAchatter, Food for Thought, Gender Talks

The Handmaid’s Tale Review

The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Atwood is a one of its kind thought provoking, dystopian anthology . For me this book is unique in the sense that I saw the series on Prime Video first. Then I read the book. I usually do it the other way round. Seeing and reading the Handmaid’s Tale gave […]

Food for Thought

Creativity, Entrepreneurship and starting a MSME

The relationship between creativity and entrepreneurship. I often have a debate with my husband about selling art. He is a self taught but talented artist. Now and again people see his art on facebook, and ask for the price of certain pieces. He is hell bent on the point that he wont sell his art. […]

CauseAchatter, Food for Thought, Mental Health

Happy Me

I was going through my phones image gallery. And I could not find a single picture of me in which I am not smiling. That amazed me. Am I really that happy? Just like a smile can mean/ say a thousand words but it can equally hide as many. Smile always… I saw a few […]

MyFriendAlexa2021, Skincare

The Right Sunscreen Solution: Skin Care Secret 6

How do I choose the Right Sunscreen for my skin? Choosing the right sunscreen that works for my skin has been an uphill task. I have oily to combination sensitive skin that is prone to hyperpigmentation. In addition, my profession involves prolonged periods of intense sun exposure. So I am now very careful about sunscreen […]

MyFriendAlexa, MyFriendAlexa2021, Skincare

The Sunscreen Conundrum Skin Care Secret 5

Sunscreen Conundrum I have always felt a deep conundrum regarding sunscreen. I always asked myself that why should we use sunscreen? What does sunscreen do to your skin? As recent as three years back I did not know the right way of applying sunscreen. And believe it or not, my first instinctive reaction was to […]

Lifestyle, MyFriendAlexa2021, Travel

Nature Photographs from pre-drone days

Preamble The nature photographs I am about to share with you all have interesting and thrilling stories behind them. These nature photographs were clicked in the pre-drone era from above an abandoned forest watch-tower located in the deep jungle of Satpura Tiger Reserve Forest in Hoshangabad district, Madhya Pradesh. Madhya Pradesh has some highly picturesque […]